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TWST: We would like to begin with a brief historical sketch of MathStar
and a picture of the things you are doing at the present time.
Mr. Cruckshank: MathStar was originally founded in 1997 as a think tank
between our current CEO and an academician trying to solve problems with
programmable logic, and under the concept that FPGAs had to be near the
end of the S-curve. The company went through a variety of iterations,
and in November 2004, the company developed a new programmable
architecture, which is called Field Programmable Object Arrays. The
company has been working over the last 18 months on commercializing that
technology. TWST: Would you describe that technology?
Mr. Cruckshank: Effectively, an FPGA is a series of millions of gates
where you have a program versus an FPOA. Our first FPOA chip is 400
objects, so you are programming 400 objects versus programming millions
of gates. You can liken it in the software world of programming at the
detailed line level versus object programming. An FPOA operates at about
four to five time frames faster than FPGA, and it is 4 to 5 times
smaller.
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